For the moment, please excuse
the imperfections of this site.It
is definitely "under construction."I am presently updating to eliminate the links on the subsequent pages my stampwhiz.com site.I am also trying to update the links on pages to eliminate dead links.I am about half way complete on this project.

Welcome to the StampNotes web
site. Thanks for dropping in and spending some time. I hope
you find some things of interest.

At
present, I expect to provide a home for my philatelically oriented
endeavors. There will be four groups of items.

Today
in Postal History:
The first section will be a home for my daily series, Today in Postal
History. Each day I have been posting at least one page with a
postal history item dated on the same day in the
past. The postings are made on the eBay Stamps Chat Board and
David Frick's StampChat board. I use images I have collected from
various web-sites;
however, most are from offerings on eBay. I write about the
philatelic aspects of the cover and provide links to related
material. I try to include some geographical information about
the location of the origination and destination. I try to pick
covers which show the date clearly, have interesting originations and
destinations, interesting stamps, or illustrate an aspect of postal
history like rates, routes, or markings. It’s not intended to be
profound but rather educational. The index provides links to the
monthly lists by date. If you want to find a cover which was
posted on your birthday, just click on the month on the index page and
then click on the cover(s) listed for that date.

Notes
from the Past:
The next section provides short notes concerning topics of philatelic
interest. For the most part, they are gleaned from past
publications by eminent stamp collectors and postal historians or
gleaned from my readings
of related material. I also have written a number of original
items
about philatelic subjects. These pages, too, made their debut in
daily
posts on the eBay Stamps Chat Board. The index provides an
alphabetical list of two groupings. The first covers the postings
from the first 300 days and the next covers the next 208 items.
The two lists should be combined but I haven't gotten my round tuit for
that yet. You can use the [ctrl][f] search function to find a
keyword.

PhilaTopics: This
is a pot-pourri of pages about philatelic subjects. Sometimes
they tell about something; sometimes they are how-tos; they are
often just stating my thoughts on something or other philatelic.
They can be browsed and enjoyed or ignored as you choose. The
index is a simple listing of the topics. There aren't too many to
make review difficult.

The
Stamps of Jamaica:
I have collected the stamps of Jamaica for nearly 30 years. I
have done very little with postal history but I do try to find select
copies of each variety both mint and used. I expect them to fit
my standards for acceptability. The centering on all should
require a second look to see that it may not be quite perfect.
Light hinging is acceptable. Faults are not. The cancels on
the used are expected to be small, and, hopefully, crisp segments which
do not interfere with the design of the stamp.
Often they appear to be unused although I would prefer a small arc on a
corner. I look for identifiable shades and do have a few of
oddments like inverted watermarks (which, of course, do not show
well). I also include a few with nice cancellations. It is
my ambition to be able to have a complete collection to be able to
show. I'm probably 80% of the way there now. But I'm not
yet ready to tackle the job of completing the web site. It will
take a long time and a lot of scanning. I have calculated that it
would take about 100 mb of webspace to cover what I expect to.
That’s going to be another of the retirement goals to be taken
on. Right now, I haven't a thing to show in this category only
empty promises.

Feel free
to browse around my site. If you have comments or questions
please drop me a line at jimbonita@stampnotes.com.